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Old 03-12-2015, 01:53 PM #3
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Originally Posted by ~HO~HO~HO~ View Post
This still affects the innocent syrian people in a bad way, they need oil to heat their homes and run vehicles in their day to day lives, so imo it's a very bad idea, as well as further provoking ISIS to retaliate with a revenge attack it's going to cause more resentment towards us from syrian people escalating the chance of creating more extremists in the future.
That is a very valid point but then i think one has to weigh up the options.Which is the worst option of the two.
Should we just do nothing and let IS continue making money from stolen oil and grow their Islamic State even more because the Syrian people will be affected?

Or stop the illegal trade and stop the money getting into terrorist hands and taking over even more land and using more sophosticated weaponary purchased with their loot.

I would argue that the Syrian people are already being affected by this.They are being tortured,beheaded,kidnapped etc and having their oil supply controlled by terrorists who are more than likely ripping them off.
I think doing nothing is the worst thing we can do.

We are already a target from IS now.Not joining the fight won't change that imo.
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